Wednesday, November 28, 2012

This week's Make it Monday is to extend your die collection by splitting (and in my case, trimming) them!
Check out the video here: http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2012/11/make-it-monday-93.html

I again used my Movers & Shakers die but the straight one this time and split each cut into two. I had to trim them shorter here and there to fit over the length of the page.
Sentiment from PTI's Think Big Favorites #12.

I wanted to go back a bit to CAS so here is a cute, simple card - maybe for a 1-year old? I think I'll keep this one in my stash :D. I used Margy's "Buttons Galore"!!

I covered the 'top' buttons with Glossy Accents and popped them with foam tape over the bottom ones but slightly off-set: The sentiment I created in MS Powerpoint with the bottom buttons before printing out.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

I used the Simple Sunflowers dies and stamps to create the layered flower. I layered a vellum-cut flower inbetween the stamped flowers.

I don't have black embossing powder but I saw somewhere how to mimic it. You stamp with black ink and very quickly cover it with clear embossing powder. The embossing powder adheres to the ink and you get the same effect.

So create a papercraft project to depict something/someone you are really thankful for/to!

I made this card for my darling daughter. She is a real budding artist and creates from the moment her eyes open in the morning until they close at night. I think she also dreams of projects, because the first thing she said the other morning when she woke up was, "I have to draw". Since this is for her, I threw a couple of her favorite things in: ribbons, bows, buttons, flowers and pink!

Here she's opening her card. I think she liked it :D

Head over to http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/2012/11/challenge-55-giving-thanks.html to join in the fun and to see what great projects the other DT's came up with!

Friday, November 9, 2012

I made this card for hubby's birthday TOMORROW!!
Since his name is Conrad, it's also an entry-with-a-twist for Mo Manning's "C is for ..." challenge!

We've recently finished a bit of home renovations so I have a STACK of paint sample cards in my DP box. I cut two of them into strips as the background.
Sentiment: GinaK Designs Petals & Wings
Main image: Mo Manning "King for a Day"

I was also checking out some of my favorite challenge websites this morning and was inspired by:
CAS-ual Fridays' "SO TORN" and SSS's Thinking of You / Sympathy. I had to make a card for friends from church so it all came together well.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

And here is a very special card. This is the last card I had to make for my church ministry for 2012. This is the last one for December. I did a quick count this morning and I made 171 cards for the ministry. What a blessing for me!

This is the last image from my pack of Tilla's embellishments (I bought it locally here http://www.scrap-a-doodles.co.za/scrap-a-doodles-handmade-stickers-lets-go/)

This was a LOT of fun to make.The lights were made by punching circles out of scrap pieces of cardstock. The checkered flag was drawn by hand and cut out. It was popped up with 3D foam.I used my mini sponge dauber to make a background mimicking the crowd and the paper strip is some scrap piece (I think BasicGrey). I just added the two lines on it.Sentiment: Papertrey Ink Think Big Favorites #12I'd like to enter this into:http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/2012/11/week-25-anything-goes.html
http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.com/2012/11/challenge-84-birthday.html

I've been having so much fun creating "scene" cards with the embellishments from "Tilla's Handmade Stickers"
(I bought it locally here http://www.scrap-a-doodles.co.za/scrap-a-doodles-handmade-stickers-lets-go/).

Here's another scene:

I made this one for my boy who is turning 3 (!!!) at the end of the month. He LOVES it when we go 4x4'ing and although this is not a Toyota Hilux he'll get the "picture" :D
This was actually so quick and simple to make. Background clouds sponged with a scalloped circle as mask, a piece of brown Tim Holtz cardstock torn to make the "mountain" and the sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Think Big Favorites #12.